Monitor
MySpace Activity with AceSpy -
What are your children seeing on MySpace?
You're a
sensible, safety-conscious parent. You don't
let your children decorate their rooms with
violent or pornographic images. You have made it
clear that you won't tolerate swearing. You
certainly wouldn't approve of them bringing home
friends who call themselves SuicideLullaby or
PeeStandingUp. So why would you let them get
away with all this and more on MySpace?
MySpace is a
growing phenomenon, popular with teens all
across the globe. It is easy to understand its
appeal. Each person creates their own page,
their own "space", where they can express
themselves without parental monitoring or
censorship, and form bonds with other people
online. In some ways, MySpace is very
traditional - girls have pink pages where they
talk about love and kittens, and boys use darker
shades and boast about their drunken escapades.
But it doesn't
stop there. A quick browse through MySpace shows
that many of the girls are putting up
scantily-clad photos of themselves. There's swearing,
talk of drug use, and suicidal poetry. In
short, there are many things on MySpace that you
would never want your children to see.
Sometimes, the dangers of MySpace spread to the
real world, as certain news
stories about sexual predators illustrate.
Many parents
have already discovered the horrors of
MySpace. A well-known Internet safety expert
recently revealed that she receives about 1,000
emails a day from parents who are upset about
what they've seen on MySpace. So what can you
do?
For most
parents, a MySpace monitoring solution such as AceSpy
is the most practical solution. With the help of
software, you can keep an eye on how your
children use MySpace at all times - even
when you're out of the house. You can choose to
use AceSpy
in two different ways. Either you
tell your children that you're monitoring their
MySpace use, which means that they're likely to
be much more cautious and sensible -
essentially, it'll be as if you're standing next
to them, asking "should you really be doing
that"? The other option is to run AceSpy
in total stealth mode, and find out
exactly what your children do and who they talk
to when you're not around.
As well as
monitoring MySpace, AceSpy
lets you read emails, monitor
chats and instant messages, block access to
certain websites and much, much more. If you're
worried about your children's safety online but
can't stand next to the computer at all times, AceSpy
is the solution for you.
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